NASA astronauts Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong and Michael Collins blasted off on their famous mission to land and walk on the ...

I knew I was alone,” he observed later, “in a way that no earthling has ever been before.” That quote is immortalized on a ...

BREVARD COUNTY • KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLORIDA – On July 16, 1969 at 9:32 a.m. Eastern Time, the Apollo 11 crew of Armstrong, Aldrin, and Collins launched toward the Moon. The astronauts were not the ...

Apollo 11's Saturn V rocket needed a lot of power to launch into orbit and reach the Moon. Here's what engines the spacecraft used to accomplish its mission.

On Apollo it was called barbecue mode. The Apollo 11 Saturn V rocket lifts off on July 16, 1969, from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. AFP/Getty Images ...

A large image of the Saturn V rocket shone Tuesday evening on the Washington Monument as part of a week-long series of events in Washington to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 ...

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of NASA's Apollo 11 launch to the moon Tuesday (July 16), the U.S. Space and Rocket Center launched nearly 5,000 model rockets.

Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos has announced that one of the F-1 rocket engines found by his Bezos Expeditions was indeed part of the Apollo 11 Saturn V rocket that sent the first astronauts to ...

The mission was also Tom Stafford's last spaceflight. The Apollo Command Module Pilot, Vance Brand, would go on to fly on ...

The Apollo 11 rocket is shown pre-launch next to a gantry in the center background of the piece. The launch area is partially obscured by a mound of vegetation.

Although it’s been 52 years since the Apollo 11 mission first took man to the moon and 30 years since Tom Hanks famously told ...

Five years ago to mark the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, FLORIDA TODAY published an ambitious project called "People of Apollo" to document the stories behind the virtual army of ...